1.	NAME OF CD-ROM DATABASE	People`s Daily (Renmin Ribao)
2.	DATE OF 1st ISSUE	1993/94 (for 1993: April 1994)
3.	ISSUE AGENCY	China Educational Publications Shenzhen Import & Export Corp.
4.	DISTRIBUTION	China Educational Publications Shenzhen Import & Export Corp.; 19D, Huaken, Shennan Road, C.; Shenzhen 518031, P.R. of China; Fax: +86 755 3351634 5. FREQUENCY OF UPDATES: yearly (?)
6.	TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS	IBM PC or compat.; 386 CPU or higher; 4 MB RAM; CD-ROM driver according to MAC Lever II standard; MS-DOS 5.0 or higher, Windows 3.1 (chin. or engl.), laser printer with at least 2 MB RAM; I recommend installation of jukebox as permanent repository.
9.	NUMBER OF CDs	in all 92; (covering the years 1946-1992)
10.	PRICE	172.000 RMB, or 19.800 USD; four packages available (1946-1957; 1958-1965; 1966-1977; 1978-1992); packages between 4.500 and 7.200 USD, depending on number of disks; subscription rate per year: 700 USD (taken from CNBTIC advertisement)
11.	SHORT DESCRIPTION	full-text (or, rather: image) database of one of the most important daily newspapers in China; it is the official newspaper of the CCP; search and browsing facilities; downloading of articles or whole pages to printer; highly recommendable, though expensive (obvious item for a grant application!)